Perhaps you hate "reactionaries" so much because you write like one. Calling fake songs given out on napster akin to killing people shows either that you have a complete loss of touch with reality or you that you have trouble containing your reactionary rants.
Pretty much any unix worth it's salt these days can run SCO binaries... how hard it would be in reality to get some of those apps working though is a completely different matter. I think a lot of the problems would come in from some of the very non-standard way sco deals with paths and locations of some odd things. --- Solaris/FreeBSD/Openstep/NeXTSTEP/Linux/ultrix/OSF /...
I agree about Exodus... however I am one who thinks they have a decent backbone. Exodus at least leaves you alone and makes it easy to take machines in an out. Places like QWEST require upwards of 4 forms to be filled out to bring *in* a piece of hardware to put it in your space.
QWEST sucks. Without a doubt the worst co-lo I've ever had the displeasure of using. A call to their NOC gets routed from NJ to wherever your stuff is. This usually takes upwards of 20 minutes... even for something simple. Once the tech get it... pray they can tell the difference between a tape drive and a computer or you are completely fucked. To say they hire some of the most ignorant tech people ever is quite the understatement. They often have faulty equipment, that they don't detect as being faulty because they only monitor from inside their own network, not from external locations. Wow. They are just bad. I recommend against using them... despite their amazing backbone and facilities. The staff and their NOCs are just horrendous.
As usual the bulk of slashdot posters seem to be missing it. Of *course* splitting Microsoft up is going to be good. You are forgetting you are taking the most powerful software company in the world and making it into two... each no where near as powerful as the previous one.
Whats going to happen? Each one is going to want to be the "Microsoft" that wins from the breakup. They will do everything needed to become better than the other part... the same that happened with the baby bells.
Eventually you will see the APP group either supporting every operating system there is in the world... or writing their own. Same with the OS group. These are proud people who have suddenly seen their value and lot changed don't think they won't fight to get it back.
Is... Corel ended up holding onto wordperfect, the once mighty dominant word processor. Many forget it used to be all about wordperfect... templates, classes, coming free and bundled with most computers. Now like Wordstar (whose ghost lives on in "joe") we have seen death for 2 of the major 3 word processors that started in the 80s. Guess who is left? --- Openstep/NeXTSTEP/Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux/ultrix/OSF /...
Thats more than likely a case of the unit actually honoring the special music bit. Many high end CD players and most DVD players won't play CDRs because they are made on "computer CDRs" and not "Music or VCD". There is a difference... Sure its only a bit placed at the start of the disc *before* you get it and burn it, but many players check for it. --- Openstep/NeXTSTEP/Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux/ultrix/OSF /...
Granted I don't care too much most of the opinions of slashdot editors (or posters for that matter). But it is good to see than when something real and serious comes up the editors here at Slashdot can put down the bias and the "revelery" for a moment and do the right thing.
Your response was brief, to the point, and most importantly not inflammatory. Microsoft is a corporation, so of course its going to act like one. This fact seems to get lost on many slashdot posters. The DMCA is something they fought for... and now something they are going to use to fight with. This is as it should be. Its the lay of the land now... the way it works. Currently.
Unfortunately for Microsoft (and any large coroporation) they move slow and reacte even more slowly. The power of the net comes from its ability to inform many people of all of the facts on any issue almost instantly. Long gone are the days when it took months or even years to start a proper counter-movement. Now it takes days... Microsoft has felt this before and they will feel it again. What was acceptable for big business in the 80s became less so in the 90s and now in the zeros those who can't change and adapt to a smart, all knowing consumer are doomed to failure at that consumer's hands. This is the "internet economy"... not some company with potential billion dollar profits 5 or 6 years after starting up, no its consumers finally having real choice and power.
Can someone please explain to me why it matters so much if the mainstream press gets such an insignificant term wrong? There are far more atrocities of error everyday in the common press for far many more things (even computer tech). Worrying about a term that so few people care about is exactly whats wrong with most of the proponets of open-source/linux/today's computer flavour... the problem is mis-directed energy. I really miss the days when your choice of operating system was more on its merits than on a "sport's team" mentality; at least when people bickered then, if they lost the fight they would go back and try to improve their OS to match the other one. These days its nothing but rhetoric from every side of the fence. Blah.
Someone is reading every submission, right, right?!
Well then, just take all the flame garbage and crap; throw it in a new tree of the main page called "Garbage that didn't make it". Now take everything else that didn't make it and put it in a new queue... That way we get to see all the groovy stuff that lost out to yet another post about a new alpha linux driver for furby surgery herf gun... and hey maybe we can even vote for articles in the queue and if they reach a certain positive point total they can be submitted to the main page from "Slashdote Losers(sic)" or something less appropriate.
Wow what crack was he on? All NeXTstations had floppy drives on them... 2.88M at that. The cubes, which where intended for more than just application/coding boxes (ie video and serving) came with optical drives. Many of those had external scsi floppies as well.
Hell if I was making a modern OS and it got compared to NeXTstep I'd be proud as hell. I mean we can thank NeXTstep for most of the GUI "advances" and usuability functionality that exists today (unfortunately while it was great for 92-95 its getting quite old, to STILL be used).
12 Monkeys isn't the final piece of the trilogy. That is "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen". It represents the rediscovery of "life, innocence and child's joy" that supposedly happens during your final days here on Earth. I sure hope so, cuz this middle part is sucking.
"12 Monkeys" is just about someone witnessing their own death and owes a lot to a short French film (whose name escapes me).
With Criterion focusing solely on DVD these days, people get to see films in a whole new way. I get really sick of the big movie houses coming out with a special version!@#!@# with 2 or 3 deleted scenes and commentary by gaffer #25. Criterion editions of movies have long set the standard for what an "enhanced movie" product should be.
Its amazing what the difference can be sometimes in a movie houses's product and the Criterion of the same film. Take Armageddon for example... not the best movie ever (by far) but the Criterion with the dual layer and replaced scenes make the experience a whole lot more enjoyable to the point of changing at least one person's view (that I know) of the film entirely. Thats pretty good for only adding in back a few minutes of deleted scenes.
The only drawback (and no the slightly higher cost is not one) is that sometimes they lag a bit and you've already purchased the inferior version of the film (ie Rushmore).
Common misconception. It was considered a great affront about 5 or 6 years ago when someone suggested dinos "do it" the way we do. But after a few years of fossil studying it seems pretty clear (and I've stopped seeing "RIVAL SCIENTISTS" dispute) that most scientists now have agreed that for the most part, dinos, do it like most mammals do.
A good example of how far that thoery has come is that at least one person has put forth the theory that the small arms on dinos such as TRex were there solely for holding the other dino in place during sex... a lot like mammals.
That's what is wrong with America these days... people aren't allowed to be people any more. Just because I work for some company, I am now not allowed to make fun of, show animosity towards or make any comments critical of my competition?! WHAT? When did we lose the ability in the US to actually be proud of the company we work for? and for better or worse build them up as though we would a sports team, whilst ripping down our competition.
Hell the computer industry needs a lot more in fighting and a lot less back patting. Its getting a bit to friendly around here for me.
Your logic is quite incorrect. They sold the hardware to people at what they thought was an acceptable loss... it doesn't matter that they planned on covering this hardware loss with subscription costs. When you make a loss-leader sale this is the risk you take. If you purchased the hardware, you purchased it, period. The only thing they can do is not honor your warrenty if you make modifications. --- Openstep/NeXTSTEP/Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux/ultrix/OSF /...
Some MS marketing phrase about everything being easier thanks to Windoze intuative interface design keeps running through my head while imagining someone running around a room entering such an obtuse key sequence on every machine. --- Openstep/NeXTSTEP/Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux/ultrix/OSF /...
Depends on the encoding. I've noticed that high bit rate mp3s which in turn mean more harddrive hitting greatly affects the battery life. Right now I am noticing about 8hrs between recharges with mp3s at 192 and 160. Then again I leave it plugged in a good deal of the time since its usually sitting on the desk next to me.
The buffering seems at least a little bit intelligent as well. When you are in an album its obvious that if it can it will go ahead and buffer the next track its going to play. Again with lower sampled mp3s it can buffer a lot more.
I recently got one of these. Rad device. There is something so amazingly cool when you can carry around music for whatever mood you are in. With that said... Have you ever tried to load a portable device with this much storage? SHEESH. Its like having a second job, I've spent at least 8 hours moving songs over to it from my pc and from some cds I hadn't converted to mp3 yet... and thats only to get about 650 songs on it.
The PJB *is* a high ticket item, but don't worry it comes shipped like one. The headphones have exceptional bass reproduction. The leather case believe it or not is nice and cushy. The only two drawbacks I've noticed so far is the requirement for 98 (and no 95 with USB updates wont do) and my unit is solid black. Not something to impress your girl with on aesthetics.
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"Mach is notoriously slow"? I suppose you have some real evidence to support this?
Why is it that everyone that says such has never really spent any time on a real mach based system. A 68040@33 NeXT was a damn impressive machine. It ran incredibly well under low and high load. However if you check the raw #s on the 68040 you will see its 486 land power... but the boxes always felt more like low end pentiums --- Openstep/NeXTSTEP/Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux/ultrix/OSF /...
Inferno has been basically scrapped off all future roadmaps due to lack of developer and "partner" interest. I spent some time playing with it, and some of it was neat... but frankly nothing special. --- Openstep/NeXTSTEP/Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux/ultrix/OSF /...
Again you post a statement that isn't based in reality... "And even a single P3-700 is most likely faster..." I just showed you the most modern INT test results where a 733 PIII was slower than a 667 Alpha. It isn't that hard to comprehend.
And where can you get a decent dual P3-700 for 4k? Because I want to buy from whoever that is.
From spec.org: AlphaServer ES40 Model 6/667 --- 413 (base CINT2000) Dell Precision Wkst 420 --- 336 (base CINT2000)
Thats a PIII 733mhz vs a 667mhz 21264A Integer based performance. The alpha is roughly double on FPU. And uh I hate to tell you but 3rd party VAR alpha systems aren't so much anymore. You can get a pretty decent box for 3.5-4k. Please check your facts before posting again.
Darwin (aka NeXTSTEP and others) is based on BSD 4.4 not FreeBSD. However many enhancments from FreeBSD and the other modern BSDs have made found their way into the Darwin package... I think the mislabeling comes from the fact that no one knows anymore that there was a BSD 4.2 and 4.4 standard and instead assumes everything is from Net or FreeBSD.
And to be even more nitpicky, Darwin is OPENSTEP based and not NeXTSTEP. NeXTSTEP is BSD 4.2; OPENSTEP is BSD 4.4. --- Openstep/NeXTSTEP/Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux/ultrix/OSF /...
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Perhaps you hate "reactionaries" so much because you write like one. Calling fake songs given out on napster akin to killing people shows either that you have a complete loss of touch with reality or you that you have trouble containing your reactionary rants.
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Either way... take a nap.
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Pretty much any unix worth it's salt these days can run SCO binaries... how hard it would be in reality to get some of those apps working though is a completely different matter. I think a lot of the problems would come in from some of the very non-standard way sco deals with paths and locations of some odd things.F /...
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I agree about Exodus... however I am one who thinks they have a decent backbone. Exodus at least leaves you alone and makes it easy to take machines in an out. Places like QWEST require upwards of 4 forms to be filled out to bring *in* a piece of hardware to put it in your space.
F /...
QWEST sucks. Without a doubt the worst co-lo I've ever had the displeasure of using. A call to their NOC gets routed from NJ to wherever your stuff is. This usually takes upwards of 20 minutes... even for something simple. Once the tech get it... pray they can tell the difference between a tape drive and a computer or you are completely fucked. To say they hire some of the most ignorant tech people ever is quite the understatement. They often have faulty equipment, that they don't detect as being faulty because they only monitor from inside their own network, not from external locations. Wow. They are just bad. I recommend against using them... despite their amazing backbone and facilities. The staff and their NOCs are just horrendous.
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As usual the bulk of slashdot posters seem to be missing it. Of *course* splitting Microsoft up is going to be good. You are forgetting you are taking the most powerful software company in the world and making it into two... each no where near as powerful as the previous one.
F /...
Whats going to happen? Each one is going to want to be the "Microsoft" that wins from the breakup. They will do everything needed to become better than the other part... the same that happened with the baby bells.
Eventually you will see the APP group either supporting every operating system there is in the world... or writing their own. Same with the OS group. These are proud people who have suddenly seen their value and lot changed don't think they won't fight to get it back.
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Is... Corel ended up holding onto wordperfect, the once mighty dominant word processor. Many forget it used to be all about wordperfect... templates, classes, coming free and bundled with most computers. Now like Wordstar (whose ghost lives on in "joe") we have seen death for 2 of the major 3 word processors that started in the 80s. Guess who is left?F /...
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Thats more than likely a case of the unit actually honoring the special music bit. Many high end CD players and most DVD players won't play CDRs because they are made on "computer CDRs" and not "Music or VCD". There is a difference... Sure its only a bit placed at the start of the disc *before* you get it and burn it, but many players check for it.F /...
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Granted I don't care too much most of the opinions of slashdot editors (or posters for that matter). But it is good to see than when something real and serious comes up the editors here at Slashdot can put down the bias and the "revelery" for a moment and do the right thing.
:)
F /...
Your response was brief, to the point, and most importantly not inflammatory. Microsoft is a corporation, so of course its going to act like one. This fact seems to get lost on many slashdot posters. The DMCA is something they fought for... and now something they are going to use to fight with. This is as it should be. Its the lay of the land now... the way it works. Currently.
Unfortunately for Microsoft (and any large coroporation) they move slow and reacte even more slowly. The power of the net comes from its ability to inform many people of all of the facts on any issue almost instantly. Long gone are the days when it took months or even years to start a proper counter-movement. Now it takes days... Microsoft has felt this before and they will feel it again. What was acceptable for big business in the 80s became less so in the 90s and now in the zeros those who can't change and adapt to a smart, all knowing consumer are doomed to failure at that consumer's hands. This is the "internet economy"... not some company with potential billion dollar profits 5 or 6 years after starting up, no its consumers finally having real choice and power.
It is about time
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Can someone please explain to me why it matters so much if the mainstream press gets such an insignificant term wrong? There are far more atrocities of error everyday in the common press for far many more things (even computer tech). Worrying about a term that so few people care about is exactly whats wrong with most of the proponets of open-source/linux/today's computer flavour... the problem is mis-directed energy. I really miss the days when your choice of operating system was more on its merits than on a "sport's team" mentality; at least when people bickered then, if they lost the fight they would go back and try to improve their OS to match the other one. These days its nothing but rhetoric from every side of the fence. Blah.
F /...
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Someone is reading every submission, right, right?!
F /...
Well then, just take all the flame garbage and crap; throw it in a new tree of the main page called "Garbage that didn't make it". Now take everything else that didn't make it and put it in a new queue... That way we get to see all the groovy stuff that lost out to yet another post about a new alpha linux driver for furby surgery herf gun... and hey maybe we can even vote for articles in the queue and if they reach a certain positive point total they can be submitted to the main page from "Slashdote Losers(sic)" or something less appropriate.
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Wow what crack was he on? All NeXTstations had floppy drives on them... 2.88M at that. The cubes, which where intended for more than just application/coding boxes (ie video and serving) came with optical drives. Many of those had external scsi floppies as well.
F /...
Hell if I was making a modern OS and it got compared to NeXTstep I'd be proud as hell. I mean we can thank NeXTstep for most of the GUI "advances" and usuability functionality that exists today (unfortunately while it was great for 92-95 its getting quite old, to STILL be used).
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12 Monkeys isn't the final piece of the trilogy. That is "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen". It represents the rediscovery of "life, innocence and child's joy" that supposedly happens during your final days here on Earth. I sure hope so, cuz this middle part is sucking.
F /...
"12 Monkeys" is just about someone witnessing their own death and owes a lot to a short French film (whose name escapes me).
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With Criterion focusing solely on DVD these days, people get to see films in a whole new way. I get really sick of the big movie houses coming out with a special version!@#!@# with 2 or 3 deleted scenes and commentary by gaffer #25. Criterion editions of movies have long set the standard for what an "enhanced movie" product should be.
F /...
Its amazing what the difference can be sometimes in a movie houses's product and the Criterion of the same film. Take Armageddon for example... not the best movie ever (by far) but the Criterion with the dual layer and replaced scenes make the experience a whole lot more enjoyable to the point of changing at least one person's view (that I know) of the film entirely. Thats pretty good for only adding in back a few minutes of deleted scenes.
The only drawback (and no the slightly higher cost is not one) is that sometimes they lag a bit and you've already purchased the inferior version of the film (ie Rushmore).
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Common misconception. It was considered a great affront about 5 or 6 years ago when someone suggested dinos "do it" the way we do. But after a few years of fossil studying it seems pretty clear (and I've stopped seeing "RIVAL SCIENTISTS" dispute) that most scientists now have agreed that for the most part, dinos, do it like most mammals do.
F /...
A good example of how far that thoery has come is that at least one person has put forth the theory that the small arms on dinos such as TRex were there solely for holding the other dino in place during sex... a lot like mammals.
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That's what is wrong with America these days... people aren't allowed to be people any more. Just because I work for some company, I am now not allowed to make fun of, show animosity towards or make any comments critical of my competition?! WHAT? When did we lose the ability in the US to actually be proud of the company we work for? and for better or worse build them up as though we would a sports team, whilst ripping down our competition.
F /...
Hell the computer industry needs a lot more in fighting and a lot less back patting. Its getting a bit to friendly around here for me.
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Your logic is quite incorrect. They sold the hardware to people at what they thought was an acceptable loss... it doesn't matter that they planned on covering this hardware loss with subscription costs. When you make a loss-leader sale this is the risk you take. If you purchased the hardware, you purchased it, period. The only thing they can do is not honor your warrenty if you make modifications.F /...
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haha sorry but...
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Some MS marketing phrase about everything being easier thanks to Windoze intuative interface design keeps running through my head while imagining someone running around a room entering such an obtuse key sequence on every machine.
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Depends on the encoding. I've noticed that high bit rate mp3s which in turn mean more harddrive hitting greatly affects the battery life. Right now I am noticing about 8hrs between recharges with mp3s at 192 and 160. Then again I leave it plugged in a good deal of the time since its usually sitting on the desk next to me.
F /...
The buffering seems at least a little bit intelligent as well. When you are in an album its obvious that if it can it will go ahead and buffer the next track its going to play. Again with lower sampled mp3s it can buffer a lot more.
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Openstep/NeXTSTEP/Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux/ultrix/OS
I recently got one of these. Rad device. There is something so amazingly cool when you can carry around music for whatever mood you are in. With that said... Have you ever tried to load a portable device with this much storage? SHEESH. Its like having a second job, I've spent at least 8 hours moving songs over to it from my pc and from some cds I hadn't converted to mp3 yet... and thats only to get about 650 songs on it.
F /...
The PJB *is* a high ticket item, but don't worry it comes shipped like one. The headphones have exceptional bass reproduction. The leather case believe it or not is nice and cushy. The only two drawbacks I've noticed so far is the requirement for 98 (and no 95 with USB updates wont do) and my unit is solid black. Not something to impress your girl with on aesthetics.
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"Mach is notoriously slow"? I suppose you have some real evidence to support this?
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Why is it that everyone that says such has never really spent any time on a real mach based system. A 68040@33 NeXT was a damn impressive machine. It ran incredibly well under low and high load. However if you check the raw #s on the 68040 you will see its 486 land power... but the boxes always felt more like low end pentiums
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Yummy!
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Delicious Troll.
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Inferno has been basically scrapped off all future roadmaps due to lack of developer and "partner" interest. I spent some time playing with it, and some of it was neat... but frankly nothing special.F /...
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And you don't think maybe it was your choice of game genre and material?
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Hmm?
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Again you post a statement that isn't based in reality... "And even a single P3-700 is most likely faster..." I just showed you the most modern INT test results where a 733 PIII was slower than a 667 Alpha. It isn't that hard to comprehend.
F /...
And where can you get a decent dual P3-700 for 4k? Because I want to buy from whoever that is.
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"Alpha isn't faster for integer performance"
F /...
From spec.org:
AlphaServer ES40 Model 6/667 --- 413 (base CINT2000)
Dell Precision Wkst 420 --- 336 (base CINT2000)
Thats a PIII 733mhz vs a 667mhz 21264A Integer based performance. The alpha is roughly double on FPU. And uh I hate to tell you but 3rd party VAR alpha systems aren't so much anymore. You can get a pretty decent box for 3.5-4k. Please check your facts before posting again.
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Darwin (aka NeXTSTEP and others) is based on BSD 4.4 not FreeBSD. However many enhancments from FreeBSD and the other modern BSDs have made found their way into the Darwin package... I think the mislabeling comes from the fact that no one knows anymore that there was a BSD 4.2 and 4.4 standard and instead assumes everything is from Net or FreeBSD.
F /...
And to be even more nitpicky, Darwin is OPENSTEP based and not NeXTSTEP. NeXTSTEP is BSD 4.2; OPENSTEP is BSD 4.4.
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